2009-03-27

Châteauroux is a little city in central France. Inside the walls of this lost and charmless town grew up since the seventees a generation of outsiders who became influential artists in the french scene : well-known artists Richard Fauguet & Michel Aubry, art curator Nathalie Viot, fine arts school director Vincent-Emmanuel Guitter, choregraph Emmanuelle Huynh could be seen as the first wave... They supported the new wave of castelrussians's creative forces like David Sanson (aka That Summer & Redactor-in-chief of the contemporary art/theatre/dance/music magazine Mouvement ), Rainier Lericolais or la galerie du cartable.This Spring, differents Paris Art Centers welcomes some of them : Rainier Lericolais at Frank Elbaz Gallery March 14th - May 9th, 2009Marie-Jeanne Hoffner (not a native but a based one) at Point Ephemere March 7th - April 1st, 2009Richard Fauguet at Le Plateau/FRAC Ile de France June 4th – August 9th, 2009Hoffner "New Found Land"Lericolais "re-TG"Fauguet "Ping Pong"

2009-03-20

Simon Fisher Turner, Rainier Lericolais, Rick Jensen, David O'Connor..."Official Interuption" is a collaborative project mastered by Rick Jensen of The Rick Jensen Trio (more info here or in their myspace page).The Radioactive Ensemble (Rick Jensen, Simon Fisher Turner, Winepress Nate, Rainier Lericolais, David O'Connor, Sean D.C Marquardt, Noel Taylor, Salvadore Dale, Edward Simpson, Peter Simpson, Endometrium Cuntplow, Rodrigo Montoya, Dave Tucker) was active between March and October 2008, concieved as an international collaborative art and music web project : "We have members in the U.K, Italy, U.S.A, Germany, France, Japan, Brazil and New Zealand. So far we have had live performances, collaborative remix projects and contributions of visual art. At present The Radioactive Ensemble is on an indefinite hiatus, we may return, we may not. There will be recordings released in the future." (dixit their myspace)foetalorange.blogspot.com/official-interuption-by-radioactive.html

2009-03-19

Tracklistingtrack 1 DJ(Pour Dieter Roth) was recorded for the Opérette de musique concrète played at Lieu Unique, Nantes May 28th 2008.
Music composed and played by Rainier Lericolais with David Legrand (voice) and Michel Aubry (bagpipes and voice) includes fragments of United (TG) and R'n'R Station (Berrocal, Nurse With Wound)

Track 2 La Mortfrom the soundtrack of "La Visite de Écoles d'art", a movie writed, directed and played by David Legrand and Michel Aubry (2008)

Track 3 La Valse was recorded in Paris with Lili Kim (voice) and Geffroy Montel (guitar)

This CD was given during the Après l'Eden exhibition at Lieu Unique, Nantes.

2009-03-13

"Japanese Electronic Music" by Rainier Lericolais (2009)Exhibition of new works by Rainier Lericolais "Le Malentendu est productif" at Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, March 14th - May 9th, 2009.Opening on Saturday March 14th, 2009The picture in the flyer is an re-interpretation of a cover from the mythic records collection "Prospectives 21e siècle" (Phillips), which was launched in 1967 and quickly won its place as the most avant-garde, the most revolutionary of all record collections: "revolutionary" in its presentation (metallized record sleeves in keeping with their contents) and in its exclusive repertory (concrete, electronic and experimental music).

2009-03-10

First (?) release of the Eerie Material Label, where we can get Eps by some plunderphonic's masters(Stock, Hausen and Walkman, Negativland, Evolution Control Committee...) You can get some of these little gems on the sector 2814 !

Notes: Participants in this manifestation of Kingdom Scum were : Queen Tristana, Adrienne Angst, Karin Hex, Mattias Lager (The Human Buddhist Beatbox), and France Simmons. All on voice.
Dr Drule and Stevie Van Allen programmed and guitarred.
The Abyss and Minister of Havoc engineered high performance guts and groove.
Reverend Birdshit and DJ Strict-9 composed some noise bites.
Apuro, Sun of the Vermin Wind engaged in nearly all aspects of output

2009-03-08

Armelder's Wall PaintingsArmleder's paintings/Aubry's scuptureAubry's Melnikov's KioskFrom Feb. 5th to April 4th,in the art center "Le Parvis", located in Tarbes (South-West of France), you can see the exhibition of swiss artist John Armleder and french sculptor and musicologist Michel Aubry, curated by Jean-François Dumont, an under-estimated curator and ex-director of the Decimus Magnus galery in Bordeaux.Amleder reactivated the exhibition he made in the same place 10 years ago ("Wall Paintings 1967-1997"). Aubry re-built - with his own style - a part of the 1925 Melnikov's Pavilion of the USSR at International Exhibition ofArts and Crafts in Paris and the Fratellini's dressing room as described by Rodchenko."La galerie du cartable"(David Legrand, Fabrice Cotinat and Henrique Martins-Duarte) was invited to write and shoot a movie with Armleder and Aubry, but also with the ghosts of Erich Von Stroheim and Rodchenko, talking about the exhibition, the meanings inducted by the repetition and reenactment on their own practices.This movie is in the same spirit of other made by la galerie du cartable with Michel Aubry (listed here) and the "Shadows's Dialogues" : poetic, burlesque and controversial.The movies made by Michel Aubry and some by la galerie du cartable are scheduled at VidéoK.01 in Pau (near Tarbes) until April 11th.

2009-03-07

(1'53)KULTE is one of the few surviving french brands of urban and street wear. For the SPRING 2009 collection, the Mz6 collective (with my friend Clémentine Courcelle, Julien Amigues, Grégoire Pierre & Boris Ramonguilhem) made this poppish video, very italo-disco in the design.

2009-03-05

Mute/Elektra Nonesuch - 1993I think that everyone in this blog knows Derek Jarman and his friendship with TG's members and his connexions with the Industrial scene. If you don't, he was one of the most controversial, radical, handsome british film-makers. And you can read a bio here.Blue is his last film, released just four months before his death by AIDS-related complications. It's his last testament as a film-maker, and consists of a single shot of saturated blue colour filling the screen (inspired by French painter Yves Klein), as background to a soundtrack composed by Simon Fisher Turner (featuring original music by Coil, Momus, Durutti Column...) where Jarman's and some of his favourite actors (Nigel Terry, John Quentin and Tilda Swinton) describes his life and vision.This is the original english version : BLUE (divshare) that I found in this blog : MagicistragicAnd here, the french version with the voice of André Dussolier as main narrator : BLEUThe text in english can be read herePlease, if you download, leave a comment !

2009-03-04

UNITED DAIRIES - UD026Released on the NWW's label, another great stuff by Robert Haigh.Tracklisting:1- Open Minor Number One2- Blue In Season3- Ritual To Revolution4- Another Career5- Automatic Study Number One6- Automatic Study Number Two7- Impromptu8- Developing In Blue9- Senecio10- Open Minor Number Two11- Ritual To Romance12- Berceuse13- Automatic Study Number Three14- Automatic Study Number FourAnd you know who you should pray for the eternity of his soul, don't you ?

2009-03-03

Le Rey Records - LR 06I think this record was one of the first Robert Haigh's released under the Sema moniker.Tracklisting:A1 Theme From HungerA2 S.S. Minor GhostsB1 Theme From Word-PB2 Song Of PraiseB3 Passion KAlways beautiful stuff provided by Rainier - may the gods lick his bottom and the godesses his teeth for ever and ever.You can get another early Haigh record here

2009-03-02

Temple Records 1987Kenny Morris was the drummer of Siouxsie& the Banshees from 1977 to 1979. This record, released by the Genesis P'Orridge's Temple Records, is a very literary one, with gentle music and spoken words by French 80's Underground writer Dorothée Lalanne.Two tracks : the first with Jean-Pierre Baudry (from Marc Seberg), the second is a reading of the french late 19th Century artist Auguste Rodin's TestamenttracklistingA - La main morte (from La main morte OST) (dorothée lalanne, jean-pierre baudry, john maybury & kenny morris)B- Testament d'Auguste Rodin (from Chapter of faults OST) (dorothée lalanne & kenny morris)La main morte (RS)